About Raelene
Raelene Faught is an Illinois-licensed counselor (LCPC) with 14 years of clinical experience helping people navigate painful life events and make healthier choices. She frames therapy as a process of healing from past hurts and building practical strategies to meet legitimate needs in relationships and daily life.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, life transitions, and a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns. Her style emphasizes respect for the client's expertise about their own life, combining humanistic, trauma-informed, and cognitive behavioral elements to support change.
Raelene draws on approaches that help clarify patterns, develop coping skills, and strengthen connection while honoring each person's goals. She accepts international clients and offers sessions in English, meeting by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Information about cost notes that fees vary by location and therapist availability and that sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
Raelene aims to make the start of therapy straightforward and focused on practical steps toward relief and growth.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relational patterns influence current emotional responses and connection; it can help people understand and reshape how they bond with others. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and respect for the client's own goals, offering a supportive environment where personal insight and self-directed growth are prioritized. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical techniques to reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and change coping patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts strategies as progress is made so care remains tailored and relevant.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and for people located outside Illinois. Clients can meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to continue regular work on goals, practice skills between sessions, and access licensed professionals from different locations. This range of formats supports ongoing momentum and helps clients find a rhythm that fits their life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English